Main Focus
- Early modern Italian art and its entanglements with the Spanish Empire, especially with the Viceroyalty of Peru
- Artistic circulation between Europe and South America
- Artistic policies of the Society of Jesus
- Visual and material cultures of early modern Europe and South America
- Artistic diagnostic studies and heritage conservation
Research project
Curriculum Vitae
Elena Amerio is a PhD candidate in the Department of
History and Theory of Art at Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) and Predoctoral Fellow in the Department Weddigen at Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome. She
specializes in art, visual and material cultures of early modern Europe and South
America, with a special focus on the role of the Society of Jesus in artistic circulation and on exchanges between Italy and Viceroyalty of Peru. Her academic interests also extend to the field of diagnostic
studies and heritage conservation. She is an associate researcher at the
University Antonio Ruiz de Montoya (Lima) and consultant on Jesuit artistic and
historical identity for the Society of Jesus in Peru. She
also collaborates with many international institutions (Universidad
Internacional de la Rioja, Prelature of Juli in Peru, Archbishopric of Sucre in
Bolivia). She participated in international conferences and seminars (at
the Prado Museum during the exhibition "Tornaviaje", RSA Annual
Meeting, Institute of advanced Jesuit Studies Symposium). From
January 2022 she forms part of the research group “ProJesArt.
Agents: Jesuit Procurators and alternative channels for artistic circulation in
the Hispanic World” leaded by Prof. Luisa Elena Alcalá (UAM). In 2022 she
was awarded with the Predoctoral Marilynn Thoma Fellowship in Art of the
Spanish America.